3rd Lent: Letting Go and Holding On

Here is a query for reflection and contemplation conversation during this Lenten season. It comes, like the previous two, from the queries I wrote to nestle within a service of “Holden Evening Prayer,” a beloved service in some Lutheran circles, as I have learned.

Meditate upon the question physically, opening and closing your hands.

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What are you letting go of, and what are you holding on to?

What is God saying, stirring, or nudging in these?

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Philippians 3:13-14

Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.